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Author Dr. Jerry Avorn on his new book, "Rethinking Medications": Truth, Power, and the Drugs You Take(05-18-25)
Published 11 months, 2 weeks ago
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In this episode, Phil Tower welcomes Dr. Jerry Avorn, MD, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a senior internist in the Mass General Brigham health-care system.Dr. Avorn joined us to discuss his excellent new book, RETHINKING MEDICATIONS.
Groundbreaking research has given us many decades of remarkable new medicines, but America’s drug evaluation process, once the envy of the world, is being seriously compromised. Under pressure from drugmakers, the FDA has been lowering its approval standards and has let poorly effective or risky products enter the market, while our prescription prices, the highest in the world, put crucial treatments beyond the reach of many.
Get the Book: RETHINKING MEDICATIONS, - Simon & Schuster (Blackstone Publishing, Inc.)
Groundbreaking research has given us many decades of remarkable new medicines, but America’s drug evaluation process, once the envy of the world, is being seriously compromised. Under pressure from drugmakers, the FDA has been lowering its approval standards and has let poorly effective or risky products enter the market, while our prescription prices, the highest in the world, put crucial treatments beyond the reach of many.
Get the Book: RETHINKING MEDICATIONS, - Simon & Schuster (Blackstone Publishing, Inc.)